Sentences with phrase «college running backs»

Look around, coast to coast, and notice how young this season's college running backs are.

The Williams thumbnail: Kicked off UConn's team in 2013 for stealing a teammate's credit card and using it... enrolled in a tiny Brooklyn college trying to get his football career back... enrolled at Utah in 2015... Quit Utah's team in September 2016, telling head coach Kyle Whittingham he couldn't deal with the mental pressure he was going through... Returned to the team at the coaches» request a month later when three backs got injured... After a month away from any physical activity, he ran for 179 yards against Oregon State, and then, in his second game, he set the Rose Bowl stadium record for a college running back, rushing for 332 yards and four touchdowns in a Utah win over UCLA.

Showing a few tricky moves he may use as a college running back, he disappeared from the arena to telephone his father, who had undergone brain surgery two weeks before.

He looks like a Power 5 College Running Back.

But as a college running back, Chubb is Vanderbilt coach Derek Mason's choice.»

Former Boston College running back Andre Williams didn't immediately know quite what his official 40 - yard dash time was Wednesday at the Golden Eagles» pro day event, but he was relieved to learn from scouts that his goal of improving on his 4.56... more

Not exact matches

Following his military career, Marotta earned his bachelor's degree at Mount Union College in Alliance, Ohio, where he rose to be the university's star football running back.

Dallas Cowboys running back Alfred Morris still drives «Bentley,» the 1991 Mazda sedan he bought from his pastor in college for $ 2.

But diehard Gamecock fans will recognize them, and college fans will likely recognize running back Marcus Lattimore, who suffered a season - ending injury that brought everyone in Williams - Brice Stadium to their feet back in October.

I eat miso by the spoonful after long runs when my body is screaming for salt; I gained 10 pounds in college when I began a habit of stress - eating a particular brand of hempseed - packed granola; and my doctor literally told me to «cut back» on cruciferous vegetables like broccoli and cauliflower a few years ago (long story).

I am a huge sports fan.I love nfl and college football i never get enough of it.I am a big soccer [the other football] fanatic.I like basketball, hockey, some baseball and rugby.I am a big jersey buyer i have a lot of jerseys mostly of american football and soccer.I love the strategy of football i think it is fascinating.I have been a falcons fan since 1990 when the went to all black helmets and jerseys i was a fan because of that and because of primetime deion sanders.I have been a falcons fan through thick and thin win or lose they are my team regardless of how they do.I hope to one day visit Atlanta and see them play at home in Georgia.I hope to one day see them bring back black jerseys as the home colors.I am still a fan of the run n shoot offense i truly believe it can work in the nfl if ran and merged with some two back formations and a one back three wide one tight end formation.

In his first college game, running back Darius Walker powered Notre Dame to a stunning upset of No. 8 Michigan

if you watch the highlights of the top running backs coming out of college, watch their Oline... pushing the defense back, opening holes and letting the RBs do their magic at the second level.

Another welcome change is a new policy where coverage will kick back to Golf Channel if college basketball runs long on CBS.

Among her Teammates is Ben Detzner who All Sports Series vets will know from his back to back Championship runs with Team Greco and Team Maione in the College / Prep Summer League.

A standout inside linebacker and running back in high school and college in the 1970s, Speckman has successfully moved up the coaching ranks after long runs at Golden Valley - Merced, Merced, Gilroy and Livingston.

After much back - and - forth, it's finally known where four - star Cass Tech High School running - back Mike Weber will play college ball: Ohio State...

Buffalo Bills running back C.J. Spiller may be five years removed from college, but his Clemson days still follow and / or haunt him.

«Call me naive, but I was shocked,» says senior running back Omari Walker, one of four Boston College football captains.

Middlesex County district attorney Thomas Reilly, a graduate of Boston College Law School, said that two of the players had bet against their own team in the Eagles» 45 - 17 loss to Syracuse on Oct. 26; news reports identified those two as sophomore running back Jamall Anderson and junior defensive end Marcus Bembry.

Last year in the college draft he selected Center Bob Johnson and Defensive Tackle Bill Staley as his first and second picks and Running Back Paul Robinson as one of three No. 3 choices.

He broke professional football's color barrier in 1946, yet even though he played alongside Robinson in college, few people remember the great running back Kenny Washington or the shameful history of segregation in the NFL

I don't see the Marshawn Lynch comparison because Lynch even going back to his college days seems to have a great knowledge of how to run.

Maybe Corso is wrong and this year's concentration of young running backs is a bulge moving through the python of college football.

When I heard the Jaguars were moving former college quarterback Denard Robinson to running back full time I was both skeptical and a little bit sad for him.

«The sexy answer is that college football fans should root for the team because of star running back James Conner, who returns after an MCL injury and a bout with cancer.

First he enrolled in Santa Monica College, then Los Angeles Valley College to study and play running back for the football teams.

After missing his junior season following a transfer from College Park - Pleasant Hill, Ray Jackson III has taken over as the team's new bell cow at running back.

The Titans have been patient with him, pushing him to master the playbook, the art of NFL running backs compared with college ones, the pass protection musts, the consistent physical approach and desire acquired.

As a star running back in high school, even as a freshman receiving letters from a dream list of major college programs, Marcus was plagued with self - doubt.

But at Alabama, with a wonderfully accurate passer (two of them, actually), the best receiver in college football (Amari Cooper), a deeper - than - acknowledged receiving corps, a great offensive line, and a ridiculous set of running backs, it all works.

An exhausting, muscle - straining, four - days - a-week regimen — McNabb leads sessions that last month included Redskins running back Trung Candidate, NBA players Richard Jefferson and Luke Walton, plus college and high school athletes — but a romp nonetheless.

Scan the list of abuses that beset college sports, and your football team can claim, going back to 1980, at least one entry in virtually every category: improper benefits; recruiting violations; boosters run amok; academic cheating; use of steroids and recreational drugs; suppressed or ignored positive tests for drugs; player run - ins with other students as well as with campus and off - campus police; the discharge of weapons and the degradation of women in the football dorm; credit - card fraud and telephone credit - card fraud.

The two newcomers seemed unlikely candidates to change that situation, because both had spent most of their time in college blocking for real running backs.

Now back at full strength, Chunn enters his college finale one touchdown shy of the Sun Belt's all - time record (48, held by Tyrell Fenroy of Louisiana - Lafayette) with a juicy matchup against North Texas's 107th - ranked run D. — Eric Single

Now in Miami, Johnson is intrigued by running back Cecil Collins, whose six - game college career at LSU and McNeese State was cut short by an injury and off - field incidents.

Former Cal running back Reynard Rutherford, who racked up over 2,200 yards in college and played for a number of teams in the pros before retiring, is now roaming the sidelines at Jesuit watching his son dominate defenses.

Washington, who coached Cincinnati's DL this past year, worked with Don Brown at Boston College where he coached running backs.

Mechane Slade, a 5»10 running back from Roswell, GA, ran routes and caught better than most of the receivers, suggesting he'll be a capable dual threat in college.

«I'd be trying to do homework, and a recruiting service would call,» the senior running back, who rushed for 6,415 career yards at Althoff Catholic (Belleville, Ill.), said of websites tracking his college choices.

Still, the college landscape has changed over the years and it is now more of a rarity that a running back wins the Heisman.

Just as we don't expect a blue - chip running back to average 12 yards per carry in college like he perhaps did in high school, a college back who averaged seven yards per carry in college probably isn't going to do so in the NFL.

Captain Berlin will be back at it again shortly in the College / Prep League in Highland Park, IL this Summer... The rest of the squad will make another run at the crown next year!

There may not be a more popular player in college football than LSU running back Leonard Fournette.

«I've never seen anyone work harder on and off the field,» said Warriors» junior running back Morian Walker, himself a major - college prospect.

Considered a 5 - star recruit by every major scouting service, and at one point holding as many as 50 scholarship offers from major college programs, there was no shortage of hype surrounding the Falcons running back.

Walker put the Huskies on his back for one of the greatest March runs in college basketball history, first winning five games in five days to capture the Big East tournament title, and then winning six more straight to earn a national championship.

Overshadowed among this year's Heisman candidates, Cal's quiet but explosive running back has the tools — and the supporting cast — to win the most coveted award in college football.

So in addition to not being great at stuffing receivers as a CB, he was not able to stop running backs in college either, when he played some Safety.

But it is not Faulk's mean streak that grabs one's attention when he runs; it is that burst — closing speed, college coaches call it — that prompted a lot of big - time schools to recruit Faulk as a defensive back.